Monday, March 15, 2010
Memento
I remember in last years English class, you read the memento mori short story with us, and i thought it was really good. Now you show me the movie and the second I got out of class I called one of my friends that is majoring in film and movies and told him that he should see memento. I really liked the movie and told everyone how amazing it was. The story being told backwards gets the audience confused and leaves them with so many possibilities of how the movie began. I think that in a conventional movie you can probably figure out who did what or a majority of what has happened around the middle of the movie, but since memento was filmed backwards you really had no idea of what was to come because you didn't know how, who, or what did anything. I mean you couldn't really go any where because you didn't see the beginning. I know that might sound confusing but Any way awesome movie, Just awesome.
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Don't forget to read that story again! (you can find it linked here, or rather on the main class blog, if you don't have your original copy). I'm especially interested in how the two texts handle closure...
ReplyDeleteAlso, think about the way that the film, while attempting to mimic Leonard/Earl's condition for the audience/reader can not do so completely. We are always at an advantage vis a vis him: we have, presumably, a working memory...